'Utter gobbledygook': Internet rains hell on Trump for thinking a tweet will be able to prevent a government shutdown

As a government shutdown loomed in Congress Thursday evening, CNN's Jim Acosta dropped a bombshell from a senior White House official: that President Donald Trump's aides are considering whether the president can "issue a tweet" to show the government is not shutting down.

While they watched with bated breath as the reconciled spending bill passed the House and moved to the Senate, Twitter had a field day with the claim.

"Well that's cool," Reuters correspondent Amanda Becker tweeted, "but he really has no control over this, especially at this point."

"This is a foolproof plan," the Center for American Progress' Joseph Spiro responded.

Read the best responses below.